* * * * * Chak De India! Watch it! * * * * *. Review on Chak De India

Let me hold no suspense in the first place. There are 4 reasons to watch the movie Chak De India.

1. If you love good cinema

1. If you love sports or if you have sportsman in your heart

   
   




2. If you like Shahrukh Khan (for his non-commercial outing, but with full spirit).

   
   




3. For a good script and best of performance by the teenage girls.

   
   

   After Tara Rum Pum & Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Yash Raj banner required a hit desperately and I believe Chak De India will bring the necessary relief.

   
   

   If you closely watch, every developing nation has its on progress in the field of sports. I will apply some statistical principles and will come to a conclusion that each nation which progress in sports will progress in other fields too. The modern day India is getting hold of its place in the field of sports, as like its place in the socio economic field. If you consult any national team selection people, coaches or officials, all will accept that there are things to be done in ground, mind, in discussion boards and so on. This will require money, desire, strategy, planning, and execution. We need discipline, talent & training. Only if all these factors come together we can dominate in the global arena.

   
   

   This year we have already seen Tara Rum Pum, Hattrick & Apne all trying to make Indian team the number one in the international level. However, all these movies had personal shades and it deviated from the subject. However, for a change, Chak De India stick to the topic and I will say it succeed in its attempt to focus the issues facing our sports when it comes to competing in international level.

   
   

   Kabir Khan (Shahrukh Khan) who was the captain of Indian Hockey team is alleged of conspiring with Pakistani players and he has to leave his house with his mother as everybody from child to elderly treats him as a Gadaar. His dream is however India's success in sports.

   
   

After 7 years of this incident, when the Indian woman's hockey team was missing a good coach, Kabir Khan managed to get the post despite his bad name as there was nobody to take the challenge. A lot of problems were in waiting for Kabir Khan. Only 3 months to go for the world cup. The players are come from different parts of the country and there is a language problem. There are few experienced players where few are very new. Ego is a problem, where each one wants to score their own points than playing as a team. Lack of discipline was there. Many carry personal problems as well to the camp. Kabir Khan knows that compromising will not serve any purpose and he decided to make a strong team. The major challenges to him come from Bindya Naik who is the senior player and Kabir Khan changed her position in the field to make best use of her experience which she didn't like. Two excellent wing forwards Preeti Sabarwal & Komal Chautala competes each other to score more and don't pass the ball to one another. Balbir Kaur, the fattest in the group is very hot tempered. Vidya Sharma is just married and has to adjust the personal life to hockey. (Preeti Sabarwal too has a similar story, where her lover is the vice captain of Indian cricket team and he want Preeti to be just his wife.) Soimoi & Rani Dispota is from Jharkhand, they have full problems of language, poverty where they believe they came from jungle. There are more problems. Chak De India is a story of the Coach who made things possible and the players who made it possible by coming up with right solutions in the right times.

If the movie is successful, there are 2 responsible factors. A determined mindwhich decided to concentrate completely on the sports, and Jaideep Sahni, whose writing were brilliant. It is another feather to the cap of Jaideep where he is the writer of Khosla Ka Khosla & Company. I didn't have much expectation from the director whose name was quite new to me, but the movie impressed me to a great extend. Between the writer and the director, they allowed the characters to fail, the problems to survive and exist till the climax and kept their best for last, an essential to keep the suspense of a movie. The Director Shimit Amin requires praise for his nice execution of the theme and roping Shahrukh khan for the role of the coach. The compromise scene of Komal & Preethi, the scene where the players want Kabir Khan out as a coach etc. are examples of brilliant execution.

All the new girls performed brilliantly and each one delivered their unique performance in style. I am sorry, but I could not remember the names listed. Preeti, Komal, Bindya, Balbir and the captain Vidhya these 5 stole the show from others. Shahrukh Khan simply lived the role without any commercial attachment to the role. He made his mind public on his worries about the film, however, I feel only he could take the risk and attract huge crowds to the theatres and his efforts are rewarded.

Music was not very much part of the movie. The 2 or 3 came up as background music or support the onscreen proceedings. Cinematography was excellent.

Now, few drawbacks of the movie.

1. Training a team to be world champions in 3 months is quite unbelievable. Even the writer knows this and which shows in the preliminary match fail @7-0.

   
   




2. Action scenes shot very badly. The cafeteria scenes where woman folk taking of the rowdies, it looks really silly.

   
   




3. Bindya is threatening with an association action, but no association is coming up. In real life, associations do intervene.

   
   




4. The movie assumes that the selection process was done completely on merit, but in reality half of the problem starts from there.

   
   




5. The Hockey is played like a football, where the trick of hockey for which India is famous for is now shown. Some help from master hockey players would have helped to show the tricks, techniques and skill.

   
   

Despite the flows, the movie did justice in 3 respects, for that I can ignore all those flaws.

1. It tries to show the hindrances come between the cup and the lip very well.

   
   




2. Which suggest good and valuable points, how we can proceed to progress.

   
   




3. The movie don't shut its eye on the training other teams get, the facilities they hold, how insecure our youngsters feel when they experience the arrangements in other countries etc.

   
   

In short, the movie is worth watching and is recommended for you, unless you are the one who look forward only to dance, skin, colour & romance movies. There is no romance angle in the movie, so is dance. It is a very good movie made on sports and it entertains with the good subject, excellent performance and spirit.

My rating : 4.5 / 5